Re: mainframe career advice

On 27 Sep 2005 05:59:23 -0700, "Mirlitone" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>hi there, sorry if it's not the appropriate goup...
>
>I've just earned my Master degree of Computer Science, and i'm looking
>for a job. i've carried out some internships in JAVA, C++ and a bit of
>.NET.
>
>Now it seems that i can't get a job in J2EE with my J2SE background, so
>i've received a proposal in the mainframe area. This job comes with a
>training program, since i'm completely new in this field.
>
>Do you think mainframe is a good option to start my career with ? Don't
>you think i might be trapped in by working with these dying
>technologies?
>
>BTW i'm in France, and the salary is 24.5 US$ after tax.

This if this this way.

You are getting experience on a technology that sometime soon will not
have that many people that know how to use it. This can mean big bucks
for you in in the future.

Regardless of this working on a mainframe is not necessaraly a "old"
technology. You may not be aware but you can run Linux on a mainframe,
and you can have all type of web development done in Java on it.

Many companies have now their data still on the mainframes, as there
is now way some of the more recent OS'es /machines could cope with the
data volume required, but they still develop web interfaces to their
data. So working on some of these companies is not different on
working with a Microsoft only co.

So give it a try, it won't hurt you and in the near future if you
don't like it, or if within the company there is no future elsewhere
then you can always change, and in the meantime you will have the very
important REAL LIFE experience.



Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com
.

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